Motorola's Moto G Is the "Budget" Phone to Beat

The new Moto G is a solid, mid-range Android smartphone available for $180 without a contract. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode goes through the pros and cons of the phone.

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I ... this is the Moto G ... looks familiar it might be because it looks alot like high and more will present ... the new model ... but I like the Moto X The Moto G cost a hundred seventy nine dollars without a contract ... so it's an Ahmad neutering and re found for under two hundred dollars ... I'm more and that reporting from Things D ... I've been testing the Moto G for the past week ... here's what you need to know about the smartphone in a nutshell I think that and that ... and as always for more information you can read my full review on AllThingsD dot com ... first the de ... beers that I it's ... an eight gigabyte Motegi cost a hundred seventy nine dollars Bala model with sixteen gigabytes of storage will cost you two hundred dollars ... the Moto G feels a lot more solid than a lot of ... budget phones out there which let's face it reach fifty ... it's a little bit thicker than the Moto X and thicker even then the Nexus four Another unlocks smartphone from Google ... and slightly heavier but it's not so heavy that it feels like the Perak ... the Moto G has a four point five inch ... seven twenty p LCD touch screens Friday ... with a pixel density of three T ninety Qiang so what is this all mean ... is is is brilliant as super high-end smartphone displays but this place still looks pretty crisp and bright ... the functions of the injury four point three jelly Bean not only is present but is guaranteed an upgrade to the next operating system for port for the cab when it's available ... in my experience battery life on this phone was great ... it lasted a day or longer even as running malls collapse and streaming video and Germany throughout the day ... that the display popped up to about seventy five percent brightness ... now for the downsides ... for me it's only double as a GSM phone which means it only runs on T Mobile's reaching keys networks the US although uprising compatible version is expected early next year ... it also doesn't support four G or LTE speeds ... only three G C from Camelot upward Hiroaki over the past couple years but in this case that the Moto G even when the four G LTE networks are available in knocking over pulled honesty it's ... okay let's talk about the camera which may be the biggest drawback aside from the lack of healthy support ... this is her while ago five megapixel cameras were totally sufficient and they still are for a lot of people ... but can technology in smartphones has advanced so quickly that I was disappointed in the quality of photos I took the commodity UTC couple side by side comparisons ... with out the camera in the I phone five S and Canada empty ... so if you're the consumer that once all the latest and greatest technology and smartphone Monday night fall just short of your expectations ... however my assessment is that for equally fool buys a phone ... Monday is a really solid interest on an might be the budget find to be its ... frothiness D this is Lauren said ...